The RESPOND Project, a five-year cooperative agreement funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), works to increase the use of high-quality family planning (FP) services. Lead by EngenderHealth, the project addresses the unmet need for healthy timing, spacing, and limiting of childbearing by improving access to long-acting and permanent methods (LA/PMs) of contraception. RESPOND promotes renewed and sustained focus on four essential programmatic principles:

• Employing evidence-based holistic planning that brings together supply, demand, and advocacy.
• Ensuring the fundamentals of care—informed and voluntary decision making, medical safety, and ongoing quality improvement.
• Addressing gender equity in decision making, services, and programs.
• Ushering programs from pilot to scale and from advocacy to action.

As part of the implementing team, CCP will support strategic social and behavior change communication initiatives that focus on demand generation for family planning and reproductive health services.